It is very frustrating talking to people who have completely bought in to tech industry hype, especially in a professional setting where straight up calling bullshit is inadvisable.
"I spoke to an expert in X technology (who is also an investor in that technology) that it's just a few years away from completely disrupting the industry." Yeah they sure can say those words. You can say a lot of things about what could happen in the future. What does it look like now?
Driverless cars exist, and they're little more than a prohibitively expensive way to kill yourself. Web3 failed to take off. Crypto exploded into a cloud of massive lawsuits and NFTs are now universally worthless. Social media funded "metaverse" experiences failed to catch on with both casual consumers and VR ethusiasts alike.
At this point anyone who buys into the hype is Charlie Brown running up to kick the football. Only instead of landing on your ass when they pull the ball away you end up swapping a few thousand bucks for a hard drive full of worthless Ape PFPs.